She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very big
event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several times and
would like to try it again.

He
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.

I don't know where it was published in 1966.

I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
there has a copy in their cookbook!!!

Thanks for your help.

wrote:

> She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very
> big event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several
> times and would like to try it again.
>
> He
> http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
> it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.
>
> I don't know where it was published in 1966.
>
> I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
> probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
> there has a copy in their cookbook!!!
>
> Thanks for your help.

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wrote:
> She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very big
> event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several times and
> would like to try it again.
>
> He
> http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
> it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.
>
> I don't know where it was published in 1966.
>
> I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
> probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
> there has a copy in their cookbook!!!
>
> Thanks for your help.


http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,176,...236204,00.html



LUCI JOHNSON NUGENT'S CHOCOLATE
WEDDING CAKE

1 stick butter
2 c. sugar
2 c. regular flour, sifted
2 eggs
1 tbsp. vanilla
1/2 c. buttermilk
3 sq. unsweetened chocolate
1 c. hot water
1 tsp. soda

Melt chocolate in double boiler first. Cream butter and sugar, add
eggs. Sift flour and add alternately with milk. Then add 1/2 cup hot
water to melted chocolate. Put other 1/2 cup water in a pan and bring
to a boil (THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT). To this add soda and immediately
add this to chocolate mixture. Pour chocolate mixture into the batter,
add vanilla. Bake in greased loaf pan at 325 degrees. Cake will pull
away from sides of pan when done.

Not necessary to frost the cake. Best by the third day, grows more
moist with age. Wrap in foil and keep it indefinitely in refrigerator.



Rusty

Rusty wrote:
> wrote:
> > She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very big
> > event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several times and
> > would like to try it again.
> >
> > He
> > http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
> > it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.
> >
> > I don't know where it was published in 1966.
> >
> > I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
> > probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
> > there has a copy in their cookbook!!!
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
>
> http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,176,...236204,00.html
>
>
>
> LUCI JOHNSON NUGENT'S CHOCOLATE
> WEDDING CAKE
>
> 1 stick butter
> 2 c. sugar
> 2 c. regular flour, sifted
> 2 eggs
> 1 tbsp. vanilla
> 1/2 c. buttermilk
> 3 sq. unsweetened chocolate
> 1 c. hot water
> 1 tsp. soda
>
> Melt chocolate in double boiler first. Cream butter and sugar, add
> eggs. Sift flour and add alternately with milk. Then add 1/2 cup hot
> water to melted chocolate. Put other 1/2 cup water in a pan and bring
> to a boil (THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT). To this add soda and immediately
> add this to chocolate mixture. Pour chocolate mixture into the batter,
> add vanilla. Bake in greased loaf pan at 325 degrees. Cake will pull
> away from sides of pan when done.
>
> Not necessary to frost the cake. Best by the third day, grows more
> moist with age. Wrap in foil and keep it indefinitely in refrigerator.
>
>
>
> Rusty


http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&cd=27


ROYAL ICING
4 egg whites, at room temperature
Juice of 2 lemons
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
7 cups confectioners' sugar
1. In a large mixing bowl, blend egg whites with lemon juice and corn
syrup. Beat with a wire whisk until stiff.
2. Gradually add confectioners' sugar, beating constantly until
smooth.
3. Use icing at once, or cover with a damp cloth and keep cool to
prevent premature hardening.

(This royal icing was used on Luci Johnson's chocolate top tier
wedding cake

> LUCI JOHNSON NUGENT'S CHOCOLATE
> WEDDING CAKE

Thanks for your effort Rusty.

Unfortunately, the chocolate cake is from her second wedding. I'm
looking for the white cake with candied fruit from her first wedding in
the white house.

I have learned that it was published in the August 19, 1966 issue of
Life Magazine.

Also, that it almost certainly was published in:

Nichols, Nell B.
Farm Journal's Country Cookbook
ISBN 0385030363
Publisher: Doubleday and Co., NY, 1972

Also, unless someone here comes up with it, I'll visit the library and
post it here, assuming I find it there.

> wrote in message
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>I have learned that it was published in the August 19, 1966 issue of
> Life Magazine.
>
> Also, that it almost certainly was published in:
>
> Nichols, Nell B.
> Farm Journal's Country Cookbook
> ISBN 0385030363
> Publisher: Doubleday and Co., NY, 1972
>
> Also, unless someone here comes up with it, I'll visit the library and
> post it here, assuming I find it there.
>

<crossposting snipped>
I think this is the recipe you're looking for; it's from "The White House
Family Cookbook" (1987) by Henry Haller, the White House Executive Chef who
made Luci's wedding cake.

Karen

LUCI'S WEDDING CAKE
Makes an 8-inch, 2-layer cake

1/2 cup seedless white raisins
Brandy
1 3/4 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
5 egg whites
3/4 cup chopped candied pineapple
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Cover raisins with brandy and let stand in refrigerator overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 300°F. Line two 8-inch cake pans with greased paper and
grease the sides.
3. Mix together flour with baking powder and salt; sift.
4. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter. Gradually add sugar, and cream
until light and fluffy.
5. Beat in egg whites one at a time.
6. Drain raisins; add to batter with pineapple, walnuts, and extracts.
7. Add dry ingredients to batter a little at a time, beating after each
addition; blend until smooth.
8. Pour cake batter into prepared pans and bake in preheated oven for 1 1/4
hours, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on wire
racks before frosting with seven-minute icing. (recipe below)

SEVEN-MINUTE ICING
Makes 2 cups

1 1/2 cups sugar
5 tablespoons cold water
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon lemon extract

1. In the top of a double boiler, mix together all ingredients except lemon
extract. Cook over rapidly boiling water, beating constantly at high speed
with an electric hand mixer, until stiff peaks form, for about 7 minutes.
2. Remove from heat, add lemon extract, and beat for another minute. Let
cool slightly before icing cake (not too long, or icing will harden).

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LUCI JOHNSON NUGENT'S CHOCOLATE WEDDING CAKE

Recipe By: COOKS.COM
Serving Size: 0
Cuisine:
Main Ingredient:
Categories: CAKE

-= Ingredients =-
1 stick butter
2 c. sugar
2 c. regular flour ; sifted
2 eggs
1 tbsp. vanilla
1/2 c. buttermilk
3 sq. unsweetened chocolate
1 c. hot water
1 tsp. soda

-= Instructions =-
Melt chocolate in double boiler first. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs.
Sift flour and add alternately with milk. Then add 1/2 cup hot water to
melted chocolate. Put other 1/2 cup water in a pan and bring to a boil
(THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT). To this add soda and immediately add this to
chocolate mixture. Pour chocolate mixture into the batter, add vanilla.
Bake in greased loaf pan at 325 degrees. Cake will pull away from sides of
pan when done.
Not necessary to frost the cake. Best by the third day, grows more moist
with age. Wrap in foil and keep it indefinitely in refrigerator.



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> She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very big
> event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several times and
> would like to try it again.
>
> He
> http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
> it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.
>
> I don't know where it was published in 1966.
>
> I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
> probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
> there has a copy in their cookbook!!!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

wrote:
> She was married in 1966 in the White House. The wedding was a very big
> event. The recipe was published and I have eaten it several times and
> would like to try it again.
>
> He
> http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load...615324.html?16
> it is said to be published in Grandma's Farm Journal Cookbook.
>
> I don't know where it was published in 1966.
>
> I have searched the web fairly thoroughly with Google, so that is
> probably not a good avenue for finding the recipe. I hope someone out
> there has a copy in their cookbook!!!
>
> Thanks for your help.


Farm Journal's Country Cookbook, 1972 edition, contains two
wedding cake recipes. A Formal Wedding Cake on pages 318, 319
and an Informal Wedding Cake on page 320.

Nowhere does it mention the White House or Luci Johnson's
wedding.

The Formal Wedding Cake recipe follows:


FORMAL WEDDING CAKE

Bake three oblong cakes and three
9" square cakes for this beauty

3 c. sifted cake flour (see Note)
4 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 tsp. salt
5 egg whites
6 tblsp. sugar
2/3 c. shortening
1-2/3 c. sugar
1-1/3 c. milk
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. almond extract

*Sift together flour, baking powder and
salt twice.

*Beat egg whites until foamy. Add 6
tblsp. of sugar, 1 tblsp. at a time, beating
until mixture stands in soft peaks.

*Cream shortening; add 1-2/3 c. sugar
gradually. Cream until light and fluffy.

*Add flour, alternately with milk, a
small amount at a time, beating after
each addition until smooth. Add egg
whites and flavorings; beat thoroughly
(about 1-minute).

*Grease pans or line with waxed paper.
Batter fills two 9" square pans or one
13 x 9 x 2" pan.

*Bake in moderate oven (350 F.). Cakes
in square pans take 30 to 40 minutes, in
oblong pans, 35 to 50 minutes.

*Cool cakes on racks 10 minutes.
Loosen from sides of pan, turn out and
remove paper. Turn right side up to
cool. To keep from drying, cover or
wrap as soon as cooked. Make recipe
5 times; assemble cake. Makes about
100 servings.

*You will have one and one-half 9"
square cakes left over to sample. To
make cake to serve 40 you will have
one-half 9" cake left over for a sampler.

Note: Use 3 c. plus 2 tblsp. flour in
batter when baking cake in one large
pan.


ORNAMENTAL FROSTING

Make this recipe twice to frost the
glamorous Formal Cake.

1/2 c. butter or regular margarine
1/2 tsp. salt
12 c. confectioners sugar, sifted
5 egg whites, unbeaten
1/2 c. light cream
2 tsp. vanilla

*Cream butter; add salt. Gradually add
about 1 c. sugar, blending after each addition.

*Add remaining sugar alternately--with
eggs first, then with cream, until or right
consistency to spread. Beat smooth after
each addition. Add vanilla; blend. (While
frosting cake, keep bowl of frosting
covered with damp cloth to prevent
crust that makes roughness, clogs
decorating tube.) Make 6 cups.


Rusty